15 June 2025

The coffee is weak this morning, but I suppose weak coffee is still better than none. Maybe I should have topped off the grinder, or perhaps the lack of bite is because I stole a cup before the brew was finished. Hmmm 🤔 there’s a third possibility—one I hope isn't the culprit. I might have absentmindedly used two coffee filters instead of one. It’s happened before, though not in years. Coffee-related mishaps are not to be taken lightly.

Meanwhile, my head is still foggy from waking up, and there’s a deep crease across my forehead from the straps of my CPAP mask. My scalp looks suspiciously like someone could unscrew the top to swap out the batteries.

So today begins with a whimper.

28 June 2025

Ever wake from a dream so disoriented it feels like you’ve been dropped from one world into another? It takes a moment to get your bearings—to remember which reality you’re supposed to belong to.

This morning, I was deep in the middle of trying to fix an electric combination dial on a safe. Then—poof—I was back in my bed, staring at the ceiling and wondering where the safe had gone. Just one of those peculiar dreams. I rolled over, ready to drift back into sleep, when my wife nudged me. “Charlie’s whispering under the door again,” she said. He does that—muttering in that strange, gravelly language only he understands. Still, I’m convinced I’ve heard him say “go out” more than once.

Hmmm 🤔 Was I dreaming then… or am I dreaming now?

8 July 2024

"Listen children to a story That was written long ago 'Bout a kingdom, on a mountain And the valley folk below On the mountain was a treasure Buried deep beneath a stone And the valley people swore They'd have it for their very own Go ahead and hate your neighbor Go ahead and cheat a friend Do it in the name of Heaven You can justify it in the end There won't be any trumpets blowing Come the judgment day On the bloody morning after who One tin soldier rides away …" - Brian Potter and Dennis Earle Lambert

I watched the movie Billy Jack at the Starlite Drive-in Theater in Keyes, California. The theater is gone now, though there is a Starlite drive, I looked on google maps.